Definitions
a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue
Word origin
Borrowed from Middle French faction, from Latin factiō (“a group of people acting together, a political faction”), noun of process from perfect passive participle factus, from faciō (“do, make”). Doublet of fashion.
Used in a sentence
“Real factions may be divided into those from interest, from principle, and from affection”
“Prejudice has bred a counterprejudice so that now neither faction can nor will see without distortion.”
“Publick [sic] affairs soon fell into the utmost confusion, and in this state of faction and perplexity, the island continued, until its re-capture by the French in 1779.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Small political group”7 letters
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